Hamilton Is Going to Be a Movie Next Year

If you never lucked out in the lottery to see Lin-Manuel Miranda’s historical musical Hamilton, you’re about to get your chance to see it.

A movie version will be hitting the big screen in October 2021, the New York Times reports. Taped live on Broadway in June 2016, the film will feature its original Broadway cast, including Miranda himself as Alexander Hamilton, Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr, and Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton. The musical, adapted from Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography, follows a young Hamilton from a difficult childhood to his eventual role as one of the founding fathers.

The big-screen version was compiled by filming three separate performances of the live stage show. Disney paid $75 million for worldwide movie rights to the film, Deadline reports, which was directed by original Hamilton director Tommy Kail.

Those craving the Miranda sensibility in movie version even earlier are in luck; In the Heights, the Jon Chu–directed film adaptation of Miranda’s 2005 debut musical of the same name, comes out this June.

The Hamilton movie will reportedly be about two-and-a-half hours long, which is fairly close to the stage version’s two-hour, 45-minute running time. The stage version is still the top-grossing show on Broadway each week, but the cost of tickets—which ranged up to $849 for premium seats as of last June—is still prohibitive for many. A movie version will allow the musical to become an even bigger part of the American cultural consciousness (although it’s hard to imagine a Hamilton fever pitch reaching more dizzying heights than it did in 2015).

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